Word Meanings - BEFITTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BEFITTING)

• Apposite
• Suitable
• appropriate
• befitting
• fitting
• timely
• congruous
• consistent
• pertinent
• seasonable
• relevant
• fit
• meet
• adapted
• apropos
• Becoming
• Beseeming
• neat
• proper
• decorous
• comely
• seemly
• graceful
• decent
• suitable
• improving
• Befitting
• belonging
• appertaining
• compatible
• requisite
• Fit
• Decent
• apt
• becoming
• qualified
• peculiar
• particular
• prepared
• adequate
• calculated
• contrived
• expedient
• ripe
• Proper
• Peculiar
• appertinent
• personal
• own
• constitutional
• special
• suited
• just
• fair
• equitable
• right

Related words: (words related to BEFITTING)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE
• QUALIFICATION
  1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
• SUITRESS
  A female supplicant. Rowe.
• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
• SUITING
  Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
• COMELY
  comeliche, AS. cymlic; cyme suitable + 1. Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good- looking; handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• APPERTINENT
  Belonging; appertaining. Coleridge.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• CONSTITUTIONALIST
  One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
• CALCULATED
  1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
• GRACEFUL
  Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
• RELEVANTLY
  In a relevant manner.
• QUALIFIED
  1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. 2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. Qualified fee , a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs,
• PERTINENT
  1. Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence. 2. Regarding; concerning; belonging;
• PREREQUISITE
  Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
• INDECOROUSNESS
  The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• DEMISUIT
  A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.